Rich wrote:
>As I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago, I've recently been given new
>duties involving maintaining a small Mac LAN at our agency, and I'm back
>with another question.
>
>Here's the situation:
>
>Every machine that is capable of 100bT is
>connected at that speed to either the router/switch or another 100bT switch,
>at least according to the router and Apple System Profiler (when it will
>tell me at all).
>
>Those machines that are running 8.6 appear to truly be running at 100bT; a
>beige G3, a couple iMacs, and a couple older beige machines with G3 cards.
>
>
Rich: I am just a home self-taught LAN (at home) guy with 3 PC's
and 2 Mac's (G-3 Beige 233 and Mac 6500)...so I may be woefully short of
knowledge for you. But, I have discovered that it may be the hard drive
storage, processor (speed), (bus speed) and memory available on each
machine that affects speed. I have also discovered that 9.03 is not as
good for some work with the Macs that I thought it would be. I have
upgraded to 9.1 and am worried about going to OSX (won't read
Appletalk)...(understand that X.1 is great for networking though as that
problem is corrected). On every machine, where I could, I upgraded the
HD capacity; on the G-3 (it has 286 MB (?) added a new 10 GB IBM HD for
very low cost and on the 6500 I have 96 MB Ram and am upgrading to 128
MB very shortly. I have an external 4GB Hard drive on that. I did the
same for the PC's, one I doubled the RAM from 16 to 32 MB, am doubling
that shortly to 64 MB, the other PC's have more memory, one even having
256 MB. I did most of this first before upgrading. Speed of operation
sometimes is not related to speed of processor but amount of memory so
it doesn't have to use HD space for vitural memory. (PCs do that
automatically)
Wherever possible I upgraded the system software, Win95, Win98 and WinME
and Mac 8.1 to 8.5x...I thoiught that would have the latest network
software and save me some pain...such as you are having.
Last, I have a router and a hub....I had to put cards in the Mac
G-3...no ethernet connection (Must be European model)...BUT I MADE SURE
the router and the hub and the cards were capable of doing 10 or 100 MB
transmission. And they would be able to automatically switch to the
higher or lower speed as needed.
Dont know if this helps...
My gut feeling for your network is that you need to upgrade some
things...memory, system software, router software, server software,
check your hub/router speeds....one may be slowing the transmission
because it only accepts 10 instead of 100.
Again, I am a beginner, but when I upgraded my system as mentioned
before, even the Windoz friend who helped me confirure the PCs for the
network , was amazed how somoothly things work . (I use PC-MacLan
software for the mixed network; it sets up an Appletalk stack on one PCs
(becomes a server) and hence all macs can talk to it and then goes
through network neghborhood for the other PCs) This network at home has
helped my better 7/8's and me greatly when both are working on
projects...I can print to her printer which is better, I can drag files
to my burner from her machine...amazing.
Sorry this is so long....Hope you can restore your network to the level
you want it at.
Best regards,
Bob
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